Roads to 14 villages in Dagestan remain blocked.

Workers have cleared snow from the road to the village of Artlukh in the Kazbekovsky District, but residents of 14 more villages in the Dakhadayevsky, Tlyaratinsky, and Tsumadinsky Districts remain without transportation.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" newspaper, dozens of road sections in Dagestan were closed after floods, landslides, and, in mountainous areas, after avalanches and snowstorms. On April 18, residents of 15 settlements remained without transportation: six in the Tlyaratinsky District, six in the Dakhadayevsky District, two in the Tsumadinsky District, and one in the Kazbekovsky District.

As of April 19, 14 settlements remain without transport links, Dagestanavtodor reported on its Telegram channel.

"Tlyaratinsky District - 6 settlements, Dakhadaevsky District - 6 settlements, and Tsumadinsky District - 2 settlements. Emergency recovery work is underway in all directions," the publication states.

In total, as a result of the flooding, vehicle traffic in the republic was closed or impeded on 132 sections of regional and inter-municipal roads, the report notes.

The names of the settlements are not included in the publication These are listed in a statement on the agency's website.

According to this information, transport links to the villages of Sur-Surbachi, Itsari, Khuduts, Ashty, Dirbakmakhi, and Kunki have been interrupted in the Dakhadayevsky District; to the villages of Gvedysh, Gendukh, Kardib, Gindib, Khadiyal, and Tadiyal in the Tlyaratinsky District; and to the villages of Gadiri and Gachitli in the Tsumadinsky District.

A statement on the agency's website from April 18 indicated that the road to the village of Artlukh in the Kazbekovsky District was also blocked. It was closed due to a snowstorm, and road clearing efforts were complicated by avalanches.

As a reminder, the number of flooded residential buildings in Dagestan fell in the last 24 hours from 117 to 54. 544 people, including 170 children, remain in temporary accommodation centers.

Alexey Gunya: Dagestan is facing a new climate reality

The Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences has linked regular flooding in Dagestan to a combination of natural processes and anthropogenic impacts, which exacerbate the scale of natural disasters. In particular, development on river floodplains, deforestation, and the disregard for water protection zones "literally multiply the consequences" of flooding, which under other conditions might have been relatively calm, noted Doctor of Geographical Sciences Alexey Gunya.

Dagestani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" also named ill-considered development, natural factors, and the deplorable state of hydraulic structures among the causes of the devastating flooding. At the same time, they unanimously considered the volunteers' contribution to the fight against the consequences of the flood to be significant.

The Caucasian Knot compiled materials about flooding in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District in the spring of 2026 on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".